Oh VMware gurus:

I have a TSM4VE 7.1 datamover on a W2K8 VM that is working great, snapping and 
backing up around 250 VMs nightly. My VMVSTORTRANSPORT used to be the default, 
and 6 Windows VMs would backup over NBD, the rest over hotadd, as desired. OK, 
one of the VMs has an IDE(!) disk, so I understand that one. But the other 5 
seem just like the other VMs that back up over hotadd. They're on different 
datastores and different hosts. Some are W2K3, some W2K8.

Here's the kicker: backing up with the scheduler, running as the Local System 
user, hotadd works for all VMs but the dirty half-dozen, which fall back to 
NBD. If I run the scheduler with my (domain admin) ID, they all backup with 
hotadd, except for (as expected) the lone IDE VM.

Sounds like a permissions issue somewhere, but where? In vCenter?

Steve

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